Bobcats find running backs coach

Montana State football coach Rob Ash has plucked several players
from Texas during the course of his five years in Bozeman. Now he's
gone to the Lone Star State to fill a void on his coaching
staff.

Demo Odems will join the MSU football program as its running
backs coach. Odems comes to MSU from Austin, Texas, where he went
22-19 in four seasons as the head coach at his alma mater, Lyndon
B. Johnson High School.

Odems announced his hiring by Montana State to the Austin
American-Statesman on Tuesday.

"I'm very excited about it. It's a great opportunity," Odems
told the newspaper. "One of my goals was to coach at my alma mater,
and my other (goal) was to coach at the collegiate level, and it
has come to fruition."

Odems was a wide receiver at the University of Iowa, and went on
to be a graduate assistant at Wisconsin in 2006. He was previously
the receivers coach at the University of Arkansas-Monticello.
Odems figures to help sustain Montana State's recruiting edge in
Texas.

"It's very big for me to have that pipeline built and for me to
help continue to grow it," he said.

The Bobcats are still in the market for an offensive
coordinator. Former Washington State offensive coordinator Todd
Sturdy is reportedly in line for that job, although no official
announcement has been made by MSU.

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